The Lord of the Rings

Gimbling in the Wabe – Of Hobbits and Elves and Tales of Nostalgia

6 years ago Sharon Browning

This being “Hobbit Week” (or rather, an extension of “Hobbit Day”, which is generally celebrated on September 22, believed to...

LitStaff Pick: Our Favorite Unlikely Heroes

8 years ago LitStackEditor

Joseph Campbell had a theory about heroes. In his classic seminal work, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Campbell discusses...

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LitStaff Pick: Our Favorite Top Five Must Reads

9 years ago LitStack Editors

It's a difficult task, narrowing down the novels that have impacted your life into a small, somewhat abstract list....

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Birthdays

On this day, July 29, in 1965, novelist Chang-Rae Lee was born in South Korea (his family immigrated to the United States when he was three years old). He is the author of six novels so far, which have brought him a PEN/Hemingway Award (for Native Speaker), an Asian/American Literary Award (for A Gesture Life), a Dayton Literary Peace Prize as well as a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his 2010 novel The Surrendered, and finalist status for 2014’s On Such a Full Sea for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest work, My Year Abroad, was published this February. Today he turns 56.

The Lord of the Rings

Gimbling in the Wabe – Of Hobbits and Elves and Tales of Nostalgia

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